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Our speaker for this meeting will be TCDP Director of Operations, Cindy Flint. She will be speaking to us about county convention procedures and any other questions about the upcoming primary. We look forward to seeing you there!

Click here to download the candidates’ questionnaires. New questionnaires will be added as they are received from candidates.

Our candidate forum and endorsement vote will be held on Monday, January 25 at the Texas AFL-CIO, 1106 Lavaca Street, starting at 5:30 PM and scheduled to end at approximately 8:30 PM.

If your dues are current, you may vote in the endorsement meeting. New members must have joined CAPD by the end of the 30th day prior to the endorsement meeting to vote. Former members whose memberships have lapsed within the previous 24 months will be allowed to pay the yearly dues at the endorsement meeting to renew their membership and will then be eligible to vote in the endorsement election. If you have any questions about your membership status, please contact Sean O’Neill at seanoneillut@gmail.com.

The entire eligible membership present at the endorsement meeting may participate. A candidate in a race must receive at least 55% of the vote of the members present and voting in order to receive CAPD’s endorsement. There will no runoffs. In any race in which no candidate wins at least 55% of the vote of the members present and voting, there will be no endorsement in that race.

Members may cast their ballot at anytime beginning at 5:30 pm and ending at 8:30 pm or 5 minutes after the last candidate finishes speaking, whichever is later.

Per the vote of the executive committee, vote totals in each race will not be announced, only the endorsement or non-endorsement. Also, per CAPD vote, the CAPD membership list shall not be distributed to any candidate or campaign.

Candidates shall complete a questionnaire which will be provided to members electronically and posted publicly on the CAPD website.

We will not be holding our regular CAPD monthly meeting in January. Instead, we are currently working on scheduling an Endorsements Forum. Below is additional information about that from our Vice Chair for Endorsements, Rick Cofer. Please contact him if you are interested in serving on the Endorsements Committee.

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Our bylaws provide for an Endorsements Committee to work with the Vice Chair for Endorsements in setting up the endorsement process. Membership on the Endorsements Committee is open to any member of CAPD. Duties of the Endorsements Committee include drafting a questionnaire, scheduling the candidate’s forum and publicizing the forum and endorsement.

Our bylaws further provide that to be eligible to vote following the Candidates Forum, a member must be current in their dues and must have joined CAPD by the end of the 30th day prior to the endorsement meeting.

To win the endorsement of the CAPD, a candidate must receive at least 55% vote of the members present and voting.

We have already begun discussions with some other groups about holding a combined endorsement forum, just as we have in years past.

Here is a link to the Bylaws: http://www.capdaustintx.org/bylaws.html

If you are interested in joining the Endorsements Committee, please contact our Vice Chair for Endorsements, Rick Cofer, at capd@capdaustintx.org

Instead of a December meeting, join us to celebrate the holiday season. We will be joining the Travis County Democratic Party, Austin Young Democrats, Black Austin Democrats, South Austin Democrats, and Central Austin Democrats for a central Texas holiday celebration! Bring a friend. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Instead of our normal club meeting, we are celebrating with a happy hour for club members, friends, and supporters. Are you a member? Or want to see what CAPD is all about? Are you a Democrat? A believer in progressive causes? We look forward to seeing you on September 1st.RSVP on Facebook

Join us this Tuesday for our monthly meeting. Our speaker is Jennifer Denton who will be speaking about Austin’s Vision Zero Task Force. Vision Zero is working to end traffic deaths and serious injuries. Come hear about the plans to make our streets safer for everyone, including pedestrians and cyclists.